McAfee: 97% of Internet Users Could Not Differentiate Safe & Unsafe Sites
97% of surveyed Internet users could not differentiate the safe & unsafe websites, according to a McAfee research paper ‘Adware and Spyware: Unraveling the Financial Web’.
97% of surveyed Internet users could not differentiate the safe & unsafe websites, according to a McAfee research paper ‘Adware and Spyware: Unraveling the Financial Web’.
The following are the key findings of McAfee:
– ‘Star/Celebrity websites distribute more adware than the porn websites
– By August 2006, there were 450 adware families with 4,000 variants
– Jeanson James Ancheta, a convicted bot-herder, received $150 per each 1,000 infected computers’.
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